Giant Enemy Crab: Difference between revisions

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=== Real Life ===

* Haha, just kidding. Crabs like that can't exist exist in real life, right? [https://web.archive.org/web/20131130215603/http://blog.rifftrax.com/wp-content/photos/coconut_crab.jpg RIGHT!?!?].

** Holy cow! What could possibly [[wikipedia:File:Spider crab at the Kaiyukan in Osaka, Japan.JPG|top that]] thing?!<ref>Macrocheira kaempferi, the giant Japanese spider crab, which can reach sizes of up to 12' 6'' across, making it the world's largest crab. It is usually harmless to humans, but a few Japanese fishermen, who catch the crabs for food, have reported it can inflict serious injuries or even kill with its giant claws. [[GameFAQs]] and GameSpot users used that animal as an example to prove the trope naming presentation was right, Medieval Japan had giant crabs...</ref>

** Holy cow! What could possibly [[wikipedia:File:Spider crab at the Kaiyukan in Osaka, Japan.JPG|top that]] thing?!<ref>''Macrocheira kaempferi'', the giant Japanese spider crab, which can reach sizes of up to 12' 6" across, making it the world's largest crab. It is usually harmless to humans, but a few Japanese fishermen, who catch the crabs for food, have reported it can inflict serious injuries or even kill with its giant claws. [[GameFAQs]] and GameSpot users used that animal as an example to prove the trope naming presentation was right, Medieval Japan had giant crabs...</ref>

* We're all going to be eating our words when palaeontologists find giant crab corpses in ancient Japan. It will be even worse when sword and arrow marks are found on their weak points. The official cause of death would be of massive damage.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOe5Lmyyxiw This video] of ants attacking a crab for food, by [[Attack Its Weak Point|attacking its weak points]].

** That video is nightmare fuel incarnate. Imagine, for a second, that small creatures were able to pry your mouth open so smaller versions of them could go inside and begin feasting on your innards...

== Other Crustaceans of Unusual Size ==